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Monday, December 10, 2012

Alchemists Academy by Kailin Gow Book Blast

The Alchemists Academy Book 1:

Stones to Ashes by Kailin Gow

What do you learn here...at the Academy? Wirt asks. Magic? The responsibility to use your powers
responsibly? Uh...something like that, his roommate Spencer said. More like how to rule worlds. Wirt,
is used to being shuffled from foster home to foster home, adopting a devil-may-care attitude toward
the world along the way. Now he s in a school he can t escape, learning to develop his latent magical
abilities, for what use, he doesn't know...to save his world or to destroy it...

Wirt screwed his eyes shut, wishing fervently that he was somewhere, anywhere else. Right now, being
back with Joan and Peter was looking an awful lot more appetizing. First, though, he had to find some
way to get out of here…Wirt doubled up as his stomach suddenly cramped. For a moment, he though he had been hit, but that
hypothesis went by the wayside as the feeling spread to every muscle in his body at once. As far as
Wirt knew, and thanks to some of his earlier misadventures he did know, not even three people could
manage to hit you everywhere simultaneously. Wirt forced his eyes open, and then quickly shut them
again, because the golden radiance surrounding him was simply too bright to look though. Around him,
the gasps of the three bullies were clearly audible.“He’s glowing, Rich. Why is he glowing?”“How should I know? Look, just grab him.”“You grab him. He could be radioactive or something, the way he’s glowing.”“Oh, so it’s all right for me to grab radiation boy, is it?”The sounds of a scuffle came to Wirt, but they were quickly replaced by silence. He didn’t really care,
because by now the unpleasant sensation running through his body had reached unbearable levels,
feeling as though every scrap of him were being pulled in a different direction.As suddenly as it had come, the sensation passed. Wirt had to concentrate just to breathe, and he stood
like that for long seconds. He didn’t dare open his eyes, at least until it occurred to him that the three
older boys might still be there waiting to hit him. That made his eyes snap open so quickly that for a
second he couldn’t make sense of anything around him. When he did, Wirt took a step back, and that
itself was surprising enough, given that there should have been a chain link fence in the way. Instead, he
was standing in the middle of a field, with no sign of any fences anywhere in sight.

The Alchemists Academy Book 2:

Elemental Explosions by Kailin
Gow

A new student has entered The Alchemists Academy, and he brings with him an explosive power that
threatens the Academy and the legend of Merlin. Wirt thought he was the only bad boy at the Academy,
but he was wrong. Not only is Roland Black worse than Wirt, but a new teacher had replaced one of
their beloved teachers, and she has more planned for Wirt and his friends than just lesson plans. Alana,
his crush has grown prettier, and now he is rivals for her attention with not only his best friend Spencer,
but newcomer Roland, as well. On top of that, it is their second year, and the year where all the
students must pass a test to move on to the Elite Class at the Academy. The Elite Class is the only class in
the third year at the Academy, and the students who fail will be sent home, others will face something
even deadlier.

The moment didn’t last long, and Wirt opened his gift in a shower of wrapping paper. His parents
looked on, those same smiles present on their faces. He looked down into the box, only to see that it
was empty. Or not quite empty. Inside was a square of paper, on which careful handwriting stood out
clearly. Wirt picked it up and read the words “Merry Christmas, beloved son. You cannot see, taste, or
smell your gift, but you will know it when you feel it.”“What?” Wirt asked. “I don’t
understand. Is this some sort of riddle?”His dream mother and father didn’t
say anything. They just smiled and stared at the box in a way that suggested that Wirt was missing
something. Not knowing what else to do, Wirt reached down into it, searching it by feel in case there
was something at the bottom that he might not have noticed.There was. Wirt yelped as something
closed around his wrist, and tried to yank his arm back. It didn’t move, and as Wirt looked down, he saw
dark fingers clasped on his arm. They weren’t just dark-skinned; they were absolutely black, as though
carved from onyx or jet. They were as implacable as stone too, refusing to relinquish their grip as Wirt
tried to jerk away.“Help me,” he said to his parents,
but they just shook their heads sadly, staring in that way parents had that told you that whatever was
happening was for your own good.The arm pulled at Wirt, and it pulled
with far more strength than Wirt had ever experienced. He tried his best to brace himself against it, but
slowly, inexorably, the hand drew him towards the box. That swirled with darkness now, and Wirt got
the feeling that it was suddenly far deeper than it had been a moment ago.He found out as the hand dragged
him in, though how he fit into the box, Wirt wasn’t sure. He only knew that he fell. Only after a second
or two, he wasn’t falling. He was walking along a tunnel instead. The walls were of natural earth, while
huge tree roots showed up at intervals like roof beams and standing stones lined the walls, marks on
them seeming to tell a story that Wirt could not understand.

Author Kailin Gow

Kailin Gow is the award-winning, international bestselling author of over 80 distinct books. Kailin Gow is also the President of a media company, a media personality, and has been writing full-
time since she was first published. Holding a Masters in communications management and leadership
positions in Fortune 500 corporations, she puts her leadership abilities, her experience, and desire to
help others into her fiction books. As a result, she has written the forthcoming, Finding the Heroine
in You book which is also a national tour. She is a mother and spends whatever spare time she has
volunteering at the Red Cross, Battered Women's Shelters, and other organizations. Currently her Frost Series is in development for a major international MMO Game, and she has over
14,000 and growing Frosters on her facebook fan page.

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1 comment:

I haven't read anything by Kailin Gow yet. I have heard so many not great things about it. That won't stop me from eventually reading something by her though. And this sounds like a great one to start with. Thanks for the excerpts! Sounds pretty good